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Dusapin: Penthesilea

Georg Nigl (Achilles), Natascha Petrinsky (Penthesilea), Marisol Montalvo (Prothoe), Werner van Mechelen (Odysseus), Eve-Maud Hubeau (Oberpriesterin), Wiard Withol (Bote), Yaroslava Kozin (Botin), Marta Baretta (Amazone)

Orchestre Symphonique et Choers de la Monnaie, Franck Ollu

The performance, which was the work’s world premiere in 2015, could hardly be bettered. Mezzo-soprano Natascha Petrinsky, Viennese born, Israeli trained, scores a triumph in the title role. The... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

Release Date: 13th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: CYP4654
Label: Cypres
Length: 89 minutes

The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year

2019
International Classical Music Awards

2020

Winner - Contemporary Music

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Dusapin: Penthesilea

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Marta Beretta, Marisol Montalvo, Werner van Mechelen, Wiard Witholt, Yaroslava Kozina, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Frank Ollu, Georg Nigl, Natascha Petrinsky
Choeurs de la Monnaie, Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie
Franck Ollu

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Scene 1

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With Penthesilea, his seventh opera, Pascal Dusapin has written a wild and powerful masterpiece – the story of a terrible love that conveys a concern to the World. The composer achieves between song and breath a passionate art of vocality. His music, intense and refined, creates a subtly coloured enigmatic atmosphere in the dark and barbarous war between Achilles and Penthesilea.

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March/April 2020

The performance, which was the work’s world premiere in 2015, could hardly be bettered. Mezzo-soprano Natascha Petrinsky, Viennese born, Israeli trained, scores a triumph in the title role. The rest of the cast is excellent, and the orchestral and choral forces under Franck Ollu are superb. The recorded sound is clear and open. The effect of the whole is overpowering.

13th September 2019

As an unbroken 90-minute span, it makes an impressively taut, compelling drama. The pacing may be generally slow, almost meditative, but that restraint makes the occasional eruptions of violence in the score, and above all the terrible denouement, even more shocking...The recording from the Monnaie performances is wonderfully clear and spacious. Every detail of the orchestral writing, with the electronics that Dusapin uses very sparingly, registers under Franck Ollu.

Dusapin: Penthesilea

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